I finished this book in one sitting which doesn't happen very often. The characters and their relationships all felt so real, as if we were reading a true story. None of the characters were perfect, but they also weren't trying to be. They were all people being messy and living their lives. I'm usually not the biggest fan of dual timelines in books, but I actually really enjoyed it here and found it enhanced the story. I did find Shiloh annoying when she was a teenager, but as the story progressed and I saw her life after, she grew on me.

I found this last volume of the series to be much better done than the previous two. You can definitely see that the author finally knows exactly where she wants these characters to go and what will happen.

To rate the full series, I'd probably give it 3.5 stars. It would have been higher, but I'm unable to see past the shortcomings of volume one. It's a shame because it really is a good story, but if I picked this up for myself and not for book club, the first third would have put me off it altogether. About halfway through the series, things started actually intriguing me, and I was able to read more than just one chapter at a time. I feel like most things were pretty tied up by the end, but it also seemed like things were resolved a bit too easily relative to the stakes.

This volume was so much better than the first one. Although I was still distracted by errors in the writing, it was less noticeable because the story really picked up. The pacing was much better, and it all actually felt like one cohesive story instead of a bunch of loosely related chapters crammed together.